[Swansea Hackspace] Flip dot display group project...

[Nathan Hackett]

Alex, I know one of the solder stations has its own hot air gun. Mine is
similar and goes up to 600 degrees I think, so you should be fine. Only
problem is a lump of brass is going to sink a lot of heat.
Peter, that's great - the more eyes on it the better!

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I may be along with my bow, the brass work arrives so I can work on the
> air system of it, do we have a blowtorch or hot air gun capable of melting
> solder? I want to solder seal my brass work to the piston and it's self as
> efficiently as possible
>
> On 20 Feb 2018 1:30 p.m., "Nathan Hackett" <nhackett1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Everyone is welcome to come along tomorrow (from 7 I guess?) to help with
>> the reverse engineering effort on the flip dots. Or to work on and get help
>> with your own projects. :)
>> Some progress was made on Monday, we have a rudimentary pinout of the
>> signals being sent to the panels. It does include two lines running at
>> nearly 20v, but no negative lines thankfully.
>> Justin has donated a USB to RS-485 board so hopefully we will have it
>> displaying ascii by the end of the evening. :)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Justin Mitchell <
>> justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 13:35 +0000, Nathan Hackett wrote:
>>> > If anyone has ideas for
>>> > suitable grease/lubricant for the tiny metal hinges on the dots,
>>> > please bring that along to test. Needs to be fairly viscous I would
>>> > guess, the hinges themselves are loosely seated in holes in the
>>> > plastic housing. Would be great to solve the "sticking dot" problem
>>> > without resorting to mechanically "tapping" the panels.
>>>
>>> There is a small silver tin of PTFE Grease in the 3D printer spares box
>>> (pink lid) used for lubricating the bearings and threads, try that
>>>
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